My tattoo is almost faded now, but here is what it did look like:
In case anyone can't tell what it is, it's a tree with the trunk being on my wrist and the roots being on my forearm.Much thanks to the artist! You are amazing!
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that's awesome you should do that more often
Actually, I am hoping to buy Henna sometime soon... we'll see if that really happens.
Lol. You are becoming obsessed with tatoos. ;)
So, Josh, good to have you back at your blog. Your Henna tatoo looks a bit like one from a character in "Deep Space Nine." That being said, I often wonder about tatooing in general. Certainly one can find biblically based sanctions against it as a practice. The term "stigma" was the Latin term associated with a permanent mark on the skin (a tatoo) by the Romans and it was always a mark of shame. The stigmata that supposedly appears on the hands of some believers signifies their association with the shame and crucifiction of Christ. Those experiences (palms bleeding and forming spontaneous blood like spots) are certainly suspect to this observer. The pagan tribes that surrounded the Children of Israel often tatooed and the Old Testament sanctions by God against such markings were part of, along with circumcision, His visible commands for His people to be seperate, to not be pagan. Then you have the over all genre of the demonic, death, fire, dragons, myth, weaponry and the like that represents the bulk of western tatoo art. If I have seen on skull and cross bones I've seen a thousand. If I have seen one evil wizard I have seen two thousand. If I have seen one blood dripping dagger I have seen a million. Then there are the naked women, breasts bulging out and hips curving seductively. And then there are the body parts that get tatooed from the shoulder all the way to intimate sub parts parts of the genetilia.
Then there is "grace."
Tatooing is becoming so, so "mainstream." Yet, they can keep you from getting some jobs. That could be temporary.
Why do you think young people get tatoos? Are tatoos something that is unquestionably "all right." Is there such a thing as a bad tatoo and if so what would that be? If there is such a thing as a good tatoo what would that look like? In light of the fact that "Revelation" speaks of permanent marks on the forehead and arms of people, could it be that current tatooing is part of the "softening of the beechhead" by Satan to get the masses to go along with his hellish plot? Are tatoos a satanic slippery slope? Are tatoos even rightly subjects of moral discussion whether secular or biblical? Are they simply part of western moral relativity. Different strokes for different folks. Everyone is entitled to make their own decissions about their body? I'd love to hear your views on this.
Way to put a deep spin on a basic post. I think you raise important questions and ones that I have not really thought much about before. I have never considered tattoos to be wrong in themselves. I see a person with a tattoo as just another person. However, I also don't think I ever knew that the Bible speaks against tattoos.
So, are tattoos evil across the board? Or did it have more to do with the cultures of the times? Or is it more about what one gets for a tattoo?
I can't say I have the answers to these questions.
Anyone else have a comment?
Certainly a person with a tattoo is just another person loved and created by God. At issue is not tattoos and all people. What is at issue is a follower of Christ and his or her personal decisions regarding tattooing the body that Christ died for. Oh what should they do? Perhaps the spiritual and psychological issues surrounding the subject of "identity" need to be considered. Our identities are of great importance to us and there seems to be a need in all persons to come to some definition of who they are and then there follows the desire to communicate that to others. So, take it from there.
Isaiah 44:5 says "One will say, 'I belong to the LORD'; another will call himself by the name of Jacob; still another will write on his hand, 'The LORD's,' and will take the name Israel."
I think this verse might have some important things to say concerning the tattoo debate. Is the passage figurative or literal? Could it be both? Is it okay to write on one's "hand" if it isn't permanent?
How long will it last?
It lasted about a week.
Oh, gag me with a spoon. I am so tired of that stupid picture of the Henna plague on your hand and wrist. Get a life...blog!
"Get a life! Blog!"... Hmmm... I'm tempted to write a post about that! :)
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